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Version 4
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Administrator Features
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Widgets
new! There are now dozens of widgets that can be added or removed throughout your phpLD site. Please take a look at the widgets section to learn more. The widgets display on the frontend of the site, but can be customized and moved around in the admin area.
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Validation
- Check all your links to make sure they are valid. Spider also follows 301s and 302s.
- Check all your reciprocal link partners (if using this feature) to see if they are still linking to you.
- In both checks you may elect to set links that don't validate to inactive.
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Emailer
If you are looking for a way to make it easy to have a system for seeking and managing reciprocal links, this is a strong point of this program. Furthermore, the system makes it very easy to hire freelancers to help you do the work yet maintain a level of quality, and also be able to see exactly how much work was done. - Enter site name, url and email of webmaster and click submit and an email is sent using the email template you created.
- Multiple Email Templates can be used if desired, so it is easy to send a variety of messages efficiently.
- When submitting, a variety of methods are used to check and then warn you in the event you are trying to email the same person or website. This becomes especially important on large link campaigns over periods of time.
- The PHP Mail Function, Sendmail or SMTP can be used by selecting the preferred method from the drop down menu.
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Set Expiration for Featured Links (ex. sell monthly, annually, lifetime)
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Notify Submitter of Link Submission Receipt
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Create Reports of Link Request Emails sent to show your customer
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Powerful Emailer for Link Exchanges
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Notify Submitter of Link Acceptance
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Link Validation
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Admin Notifications on New Links (optional)
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IP, Domain and Keyword Banning
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Database Backup from within admin panel
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Limited Access for Editors
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Boolean Searches (optional)
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Limit Hits on Links from a single IP to prevent "hit spamming"
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Edit Templates from Admin
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Links are Searchable in Admin to Help Manage Large Directories
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Easily Move or Rename Categories
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Import Links from XML Source (per category)
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Category Search in the Admin Area
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Mass change links and category on a page with checkbox selections
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Send status notifications to link owners with expired link pages
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Link validator in admin panel will mark links with reciprocal link pages expired
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link to personaly watch reciprocal link page on link edit (admin area)
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Option to rebuild all meta tags on admin maintenance page
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Change currency for payment (ex.: USD, EUR, GBP, CAD, AUD, JPY)
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Template switcher and ability to manage and use more templates per installation
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Admin Configuration Settings
- URL Rewrite (yes/no);
- Show Link and Category Counts (yes/no);
- Show Subcategories below subcategories on main index;
- Show PageRank of links in the directory;
- Sort links in each category by PageRank, Alphabetically or by number hits. Hits are counted with js, so no jump urls are used;
- No Follow Tags (prevent search engines from following links) - there are 3 options: disabled, all or only if no reciprocal link;
- RSS feeds may be enabled so that all categories have an xml feed;
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Improved search capabilities from within admin
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Articles Module allows articles to be added into categories
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Quick subcategory adder makes adding categories faster
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Language editor makes editing language files easier
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Easy Installation
- Just upload the files to a folder, go to that folder, and follow the instructions. The only requirement is you must setup a mysql database name, login and password. The actual database table creation is performed by the script.
- Customizing the look and feel is also easy. Just modify the header and footer files in the templates folder.
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User Features
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Available in a dozen languages
These languages include English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Romanian, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. These come pre-loaded. Also, a few additional languages have been released in the forums, so please feel free to ask if the language you seek is not listed.
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Link Submission
- Visual Confirmation may be enabled to prevent spamming of your directory by bots.
- Reciprocal Links can be required if you wish. If required, then when they click submit it spiders their site to make sure the link exists.
- Multiple submissions from the same site can be either allowed or disallowed.
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Open Links in New Window (Optional)
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3-Way Linking Ability (require reciprocal link to 3rd site)
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Encrypted Database Passwords
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Visual Confirmation (improved in version 3)
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Paypal subscriptions available for payments
Sometimes featured links are sold on a subscription basis, so that people can renew after a period of time. This has been a good way for directory owners to continue to bring in revenue from existing clients.
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Each user can select their preferred language
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Three category selection methods for submiot form (default, auto-selected and AJAX category selection)
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Article Submission by Users
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Allow users to submit custom META tags for links
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Users can comment and rate articles like a blog
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Reciprocal Links can be Required (optional)
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Contact Us page with captcha
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Listing Features
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Unlimited Categories and Subcategories (tested on 2 million+)
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Show Most Popular Links
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Show Latest Links
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Google Pagerank (note: banned on some servers)
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Business Listings with Google Maps
new! Regional directories are getting popular now, and the business listings feature allows for the listing of physical addresses. Then on the detail pages, you can see a map to the location via Google Maps.
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Sort Links by Alphabetical, Hits or PageRank
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Display RSS Feed for Each Category (optional)
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Link Details Page (separate page for each link)
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Category Search Results (as on DMOZ)
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Set Links per Page
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SEO
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Mod Rewrite for SEO Friendly Pages (optional)
Instead of having URLs like yoursite.com/?c=421, you will have URLs like yoursite.com/arts_and_entertainment.
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Google Sitemaps Integration (auto ping google server)
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Yahoo Sitemaps Integration
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Payment Gateways
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Paypal Integration for Selling Featured Links
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Compatibility
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Compatable with Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera
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Compatable with PHP 5
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Compatibility
Tested on PHP 4 and 5. Tested on mySQL 3.23 and up. Tested on Fedora, RedHat, Windows 2003 and FreeBSD. Note to windows users: mod rewrite (seo friendly urls) may not be possible.
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Customization
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Templates Easy to Edit Using Smarty
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Lots of Free Templates Available for v2 and v3
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Many Mods Avaialble
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Active Support Forum
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Releases
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Continously being improved and updated
We have a new release every few months, and continue to listen to user requests, and try to bring the features people want.
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